There was a curtain drawn across the rear section of a Turkish Airlines flight from Heathrow to Istanbul last month. A security guard murmured to passengers on entry: “Don’t worry about all the shouting at the back — he’ll quieten down after we take off.”

Only then did I realise there was a deportee on board. “Help!” he yelled, sweat pouring off him. “They’re taking me to Mogadishu.”

A young man was handcuffed to his seat and struggling with all his might. He was surrounded by two empty rows and guarded by five immigration officers, including a medic. I asked if they were deporting a prisoner: they were.

Handcuffed to his seat on a Turkish Airlines plane, Hashi is deported to Somalia

JEZ COULSON/COURTESY THE HASHI FAMILY

I did not stage a passenger revolt. Earlier this year holidaymakers had stopped a plane taking off